This course the fourth of the Pathway about Identification of prior experiential learning to validate and certificate competences and presents the European and national legislative system and the applied practices for the identification, validation and certification of learning acquired in not formal and informal contexts. It is organized into four learning units each developing into three video lessons on the following subjects, dealt by particularly knowledgeable teachers:

• Recognition and validation of acquired Knowledge in an European view (Prof. Giorgio Federici, University of Florence); 
  
• National politics and practices: (Prof. Mauro Palumbo, University of Genoa); 
  
• VAE and the France experience: (Prof. Jean Marie Filloque, University of Caen – France); 
  
• APEL and the English experience (dott.ssa Barbara Light, University of Middlesex, England).